New photos uploaded! This time from my trip to Phipps to see the Gargoyle show.
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I just got back from my first trip to the Consol Energy Center, watching the Baby Pens play the Hershey Bears (who happen to be the Capital’s feeder team, hence the match-up in the lead in to the Winter Classic).
Check out my pictures below, and they are in the gallery as well.
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One of the things I’ve been working on is sorting all my photos. I’ve added a new menu item, which will show some of the photo galleries which I have uploaded. Once I get caught up, new photos will go up a lot faster than before, so I hope you like it. Not only will they all show up in the photo gallery page, but I can easily link to them here, just like these pictures from my trip to Quantum Theater:
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Let’s give this a second try…(first time did not save and I lost everything). Hey everybody! Lots of fun links to pass on, and I’ll be updating The Great and Secret Show as well, so stay tuned for more later this weekend as well.
I’ve found a lot of old links (from a few months ago), so I’ll only be posting the relevant ones, hope you enjoy:
Sometimes life is funny. And ironic.
I really hope the city decided to leave the chalk drawings:
I was in a conversation with a friend talking about the different names for groups of animals. The obvious winner is a sedge of cranes.
Ever feel alone? You got nothing on this guy!
Pittsburgh Sports and Mini Ponies is about exactly what you think, or at least their banner is. The site is on Bloquin, so good luck trying to get it to display correctly or have a working RSS feed though.
I hate the Wesboro Baptist Church as much as anyone. But I love that they tried to take on the San Diego Comic Con and lost, so bad (and this doesn’t even show the parade the attendees put on as a counter protest). Strong language and logic that will make your head explode about eight times:
Here is a cool chart showing different aspects on covers of fantasy book. I can’t embed it here, for some reason it breaks Joomla. Sorry!
And really, at this point, you’re just showing off:
Okay, that’s it for this one, shorter update, but more to come soon!
Happy Guy Fawkes Day!
Remember, remember the Fifth of November,
The Gunpowder Treason and Plot,
I know of no reason
Why the Gunpowder Treason
Should ever be forgot.
Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes, ’twas his intent
To blow up the King and Parli’ment.
Three-score barrels of powder below
To prove old England’s overthrow;
By God’s providence he was catch’d
With a dark lantern and burning match.
Hulloa boys, Hulloa boys, let the bells ring.
Hulloa boys, hulloa boys, God save the King!
A penny loaf to feed the Pope.
A farthing o’ cheese to choke him.
A pint of beer to rinse it down.
A faggot of sticks to burn him.
Burn him in a tub of tar.
Burn him like a blazing star.
Burn his body from his head.
Then we’ll say ol’ Pope is dead.
Hip hip hoorah!
Hip hip hoorah!
Hey everybody, couple big updates on the way, starting with this one. I’m going through a whole bunch of stuff, so some will be a bit old, but all still really cool! Hope you enjoy!
Did you know that you can use bacon to track the economy? Yeah, we might use bacon for too much at this point.
Are you concerned about genetically modified food? You shouldn’t be, we have blenders that will hep us test them! Slate explains.
Oh my god. Double windmill. What does it mean?
Want to make your own laundry detergent really cheap? Here’s a recipe. I’ve heard good things about this, but have yet to try it.
I’ve always says that the internet can (and usually is) a force for good. And 4chan proves me right once again:
This is old news, but good nonetheless, now it’s legal to “jailbreak” your phone. You know, the one that you own!
Once tablets get more and more popular, we’ll see this more often, which I’m sure would make it easier to keep menus updated, as well as save a lot of paper:
Need a primer on the whole Glen Beck is trying to swindle his viewers out of money out of greed and stupidity? Check it out here.
Pittsburgh City Paper has a cool list of historic dates at the Civic Arena. Check it out here. And follow it up by a collection of stories from the Igloo, all very touching. And they round out the hat trick with another nice piece, this one the history of the building from the start.
I have not watched all of this yet, but it’s the history of the Soviet Union, as told through Tetris:
I think I might have posted about this before, but I would change the title to “Going to Church: You’re doin’ it right“
I haven’t talked much about the mosque controversy in NYC, but I’ll chime in with these comments. That is all.
Want to get away? Teleport somewhere using Google Maps! Pretty cool!
Check these out, there are ten total, and I like this one a lot:
You want to see Star Wars as a silent movie? Okay, here you go:
Anachronisme
Uploaded by LesSingesHurlants. – Arts and animation videos.
Anne Rice isn’t a Christian anymore! I guess I would care if I ever read any of her stuff. But her reasoning is sound I suppose, but I would always say find a church that fits you. They’re out there.
I finally got the tote bag I was waiting for (I saw them, but they weren’t for sale yet), and it is a Leave No Trace bag (how fitting). Here’s a fun mockumentary about why plastic bags aren’t exactly great for us:
This police log is pretty awesome:
Overdressed for the occasion, a man who not only lacked the mandatory skanky hoodie but was all spiffed up in a white dress shirt and slacks made an extremely literal beer run at an Alliance Road stop ’n’ rob. That is, he snabbed an 18-pack of The King of Bland Beers and scurried out the door.
But then we find that sometimes they are written as limericks!
A car parked ’twixt striping of blue
Had nothing whatever to do
With handicapped access
Cops thought what it lacks is
A ticket, and also a clue.
That’s it for now, but I’ll try to be back later in the week with some more. Have a great one!
And I’m back! Enjoy some of this awesomeness as I continue to go through my e-mail, back logs of links and find all kinds of stuff from around the Net for you to enjoy:
Lifehacker takes you through the steps to disable Places on Facebook. As with anything regarding privacy on Facebook, the steps necessary are long and involved (or at least, longer and more involved than they should be), but I did them this afternoon, so they aren’t impossible.
Did you know that the Old Spice man wants to be a superhero? Check out his transformation here:
And in other amazing video, watch this deleted scene from Return of the Jedi, available on the soon to be released Blu-Ray versions.
I came cross a new blog, Better Book Titles. A personal favorite (and what has turned into my white whale):
(It’s really Infinite Jest, which I have started and gotten about 100 pages in at least four times now…)
A Chinese mall has a new “rage center” where women can go in and smash items that were going to be thrown out anyway. Pretty cool if you ask me.
This article is just blowing my mind a little bit:
Intel announced Tuesday that it had made the first chip that sends and receives information using beams of light…And the company expects to make one eventually that can transmit a laptop’s hard drive in one second and the entire printed collection of the Library of Congress in less than two minutes.
One of the designers of the U.S. State Quarters has released a couple parodies, including this wonderful one of New Jersey:
China is planning huge buses that run on rails (so I guess it is a mix of light rail and bus) that cars can drive underneath. Amazing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-iIIMco46A
Sharpie is developing a new pen that can be erased for up to three days before becoming permanent. Crazy!
Check out historical events, if they had Facebook status updates. My favorite is Issac Newton, way down at the bottom.
This has been floating around for a bit, but here’s the trailer for the movie adaptation of The Oregon Trail (not real):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHps2SecuDk
And finally, for the D&D kids out there, here’s t-shirt designs for D&D inspired sports teams. I love the gelatinous cubes (because who doesn’t love to say ‘gelatinous’) and the Displacer Beasts:
That’s it for now, but I should be back tomorrow, have a great one!
Radio is a medium I do not typically write about. It’s not glamorous; a favorite book of mine described it “one of the great mysteries of advertising.” But its reach is far, and if done correctly, it can have a very large impact.
The State of Pennsylvania is in the midst of running a new campaign from their Department of Health, focusing on the age limit for buying tobacco. And it keeps getting stuck in my head.
Thankfully, I’m not alone. The folks over at Jezebel have been discussing it as well. Like them, I have not been able to find an online version of the ad, but I’m guessing you’ll know it as soon as you read it:
“Let me see your ID please,
keep it with you like your keys,
sorry please don’t cause a scene,
you know you must be 18″
I’m not the primary audience, which made me wonder if the station I hear it on (Star) would have the most reach to their audience. I don’t smoke, even though most of my friends do, and I’ve always listened to 80′s music, even in high school. Anecdotal evidence, yes. But maybe it is in fact a good way to reach the kind of goofy kids that might be susceptible to peer pressure.
All in all, a decent ad. I can’t say I don’t cringe a little bit when I hear it come on, but I’m always singing along by the end, if only in my head.
Filed under: Radio 
I have a very full back log of links and other assorted things to pass on. I’m going to try to get to posting some of them over the next couple weeks, so this is a clearinghouse of sorts. These are fairly current too, so you’re in luck!
The apps available for cell phones are getting kind of amazing! You can order pizza and have ti delivered to your blanket…in Central Park.
And speaking of iPhones, here’s a fun parody:
A follow up to the periodic table of meat I posted a bit ago, here is the periodic table of swearing (which, incidentally, will probably offend you):
I stumbled across “Continuity” a game from the Independent Games Festival, and it’s a lot of fun, check it out here.
So my birthday is coming up, here’s a gift idea for you:
Probably not that safe, but still freaking cute!
World War Z is being made into a movie, and Brad Pitt is going to be in it! I think I’m most excited that it will be a movie, though. If you haven’t read it, it really is an amazing piece of work, even if you don’t like zombies, the writing is simply amazing!
Also in awesome writing, check out this article from Nerve about hitting on your waiter/customer. It’s a really fun read, check it out.
And for fun, check this mash up out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4PuYsDdXjI
For some strange reason, I feel as if my cousin would love this product. However, I don’t know how one tactfully asks a relative their bra size in order to purchase a Christmas gift. I feel as though that is a sentence most people don’t ever write or say out loud.
He’s just asking, did Glenn Beck steal his credit card information and sell it to the Russians? All signs point to yes.
So, Mel Gibson. I feel as though I don’t need to say much more besides that. I’ll add two things. One, adorable kittens (and here’s my favorite)!
Make sure to check out the link to see the other 19 worst rants by Mel (as presented by adorable kittens). Also, did you know he’s dating a man:
That’s it for now, catch everyone later!
TDP Banner 2
This is the banner for the second roll-out of changes for the TDP (Transit Development Plan) by the Port Authority. Something about it was bugging me,
and for the longest time, I couldn’t figure it out. Then it finally hit me. The banners, especially the first iteration, remind me a lot of the artwork used in the card game “Beer Money.”
Beery Money boxart
The first round of changes was ushered in by a purple banner, which matched the Beer Money cards and box (shown below).
But I do like them a lot. The movement, although more understated, matches the banner at the top of their website and I do love the choice of bus that they used (one in good repair, with their name all over it), but I digress.
These are seen on the side of buses, as well as inside (think ads in the NYC Subway, above everyone) as well as online. I’m still trying to locate the first banner, and if I can find it, I’ll put it up here.
And now for a shameless plug: want to read more about PAT? Check out my (almost regular) weekly column, PATransit Tuesdays, over at Pittsburgh Metblogs.
